Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-11
DAILY HERALD.
RICH AMERICAN WOMEN.

HettY Green, With Her 035,OOOs.
900, IL Probably the Wealth.
lest of Them.
HettieGreen is credited with being
the most of capitalist OF her sex in
the United States. Her wealth would
foot up from $35, ,OOO,0 900 to s45, ,OO0,-
900, l suppose. She in herited $l3,-
900 900, married one million and has
made the rest by shrewd financiering.
Another clear-headed woman is Miss
Elizabeth Garrett, who must have
$40, ,000, 900 or more and who knows
how to take care Of it. She was her
fathers private secretary for
years and understands Baltimore
and Ohio stock as we'll as any
body. Miss Garrett is not as rich as
she would be if she were less chari-
table. She never filings money away
recklessly, but expends large sums
with discrimination and good sense on
educational and philanthropic pro-
iects. Mrs. Mark Hopkins is richer,
than Miss Garrett, though her neigh
bors. the village folks, are less
enthusiastic about her than they used
to be before she put up high fence
or Chinese wall about that $4,000, 900
palace of hers at Great Darlington.
Mrs. Hopkins is not worth less than
$50, ,0OO, 900 or $35. 900, 900 probably,
and she, tco, is noted for her charity.
Mrs. Emily HI. Moir, the heir of the
Morgan property, pays the largest
personal assessment of any woman in
New York, and Mrs. Sarah H. Green
comes next her. Mrs. John Jacob
Astor has tidy sum of from 81 ,000,-
900 to $9O00,000
Rich New York widows estim ated
at from 10000 to 5000, 900
abound, and there are some hundreds
of unmarried women under thirty
who have from $100, ZOO upward in
their own name. Mrs. w. E. Dodge
has invested her money well and it
amounts to s., ,OOO, 900 perhaps. Com
modore Vanderbilt's widow has
something more than double what
her husband left her. Mrs. Robert
Goelet and Clarkson Potter's widow
are not poor. Miss May Calender
must be worth million. The Misses
Leary and the Misses Furniss of Fifth |
avenue have large incomes. Miss
Adele Grant, who has been starring it,
with Miss Winslow for foil, has 500,
600 or more. Mrs. Langtry has got
above the 100000 mark. Mrs. John
Minturn has money. Miss Grace H.
Dodge has a fortune of her own. Mrs. |
Frank Leslie must have $1,000, 900.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord has several mil
lions.
There are some married women in |
New York who have private fortunes. |
Mrs. Whitney has plenty, and will
have more. Whitelaw Reid got his |
money with d. G.. Mills daughter,
and Mayor Hewitt his with Peter
Cooper's daughter.
A rich New Englander is Mrs. Sut-
ton of Peabody, Mass. Her husband
left her s., 600, 900. She has made it
not far from SC, 100000. She has not
had happy life, for the one son on
whom she set her heart broke his
collar bone half dozen times falling
from ottomans and chairs, and finally
broke his neck falling from
Shetland pony. She has
endowed a magnificent reference
1ibrary-room in the Peabody Library,
founded by George Peobody, and her
boys picture, framed in gold, hangs
on its walls. Mrs. Frederick Lenoir.
of Springfield is another rich Bay
State woman, owning, perhaps 81 ,000,-
900. Agassiz' daughter, Mrs. Shaw,
of Boston, is made wealthy by her
husbands gifts, and supports great
numbers of free kindergartens.
One of the wealthiest Baltimore
danes is Mrs. Hutton, daughter OF
Thomas Winans. She has $40 ,000,-
600 or more. Mrs. Sarah McEvoy, of
Chicago has half that, perhaps. Mrs.
@. III. Mccormick, of Chicago has
about that much.
The Drexel sisters of Philadelphia
have some millions apiece, and the
widow of Tom Scott, the railroad
President, had $4,000,00 or $5,000,-
900 left her by her husband. There
are dozens of rich Philadelphia
widows, and some good catches among
the heiresses. Miss Ellen Erben, for
instance, has a big income. Miss
Lillian Reeves and Miss Helen Rives,
late settlers in the City OF Brotherly
Love, have not less than 81 SOC, 900
apiece. Mrs. Disston has great deal
OF money.
Washington is not a city of rich
women, but there are several who
have 81 900, ,000-some who have more
than that sum. 1t would be hard,
indeed, to find a city in the United
States which has not women whose
property lists reckon up good sums.
Major Burke's wife, of New Orleans,
and Mrs. Nicholson, editor and owner
of the Picay,tne of that city, are
Southern ladies, and Miss Celeste
Stauffer, to whom Tilden left 100000,
is one of the prettiest and brightest
young women of that city as well.
There are a number of cattle queens
who have made money. Mrs. Henry
G. Meredith, of Cambridge City Ind,
has inherited a famous stock farm
from her husband. who in turn re-
ceived it from General Sol. Meredith,
his father. Mrs. Meredith is an au-
thority in her business, and was the
only woman present at the annual
meeting of the Indiana Shorthorn-
Breeders Association at Indianapolis
few weeks ago. Miss Annie
Thomas, Of Billings, Mo-, has big
ranch and two paying mines near
Butte City. Mrs. Rogers, the Texas
ranch-woman, has made a million.
Mrs. Bishop Iliff Warren, who got her
money from Tiff, the Colorado cattle |
king, is wealthy woman. She man.
ages her ranch personally and shows |
excellent business judgment.
Prilna donas one takes for granted. |
Patti gave 1,000, 900 francs to M. de
Caux to get rid of him. Lucca gave
good bit to her husband. Nilsson